IMG_1045.jpgFree Sheep Foundation, the itinerant band of artists temporarily occupying soon-to-be-developed derelict spaces (here's my story about it), is being evicted. The artists have to pack up their caravan and move on out of their first home—at Third and Battery in Belltown—by Sunday. (They didn't do anything wrong; just the opposite. FSF is supposed to be nomadic. It's a moving, makeshift contemporary art center. They're the ones who brought you the Bridge Motel project and the wake for the Belmont.)

But before they switch off the lights, to coincide with Belltown's Artwalk on Friday Free Sheep Foundation is hosting The Seattle Street Biennial. Seattle's best graffiti artists will be covering the walls of the place with aerosol paintings, starting at 7. (The lineup is: NTG, Angel 179, Jesse Edwards, Video, Baldman, Ego, Towel, Merlot, Charms Won, Specs Wizard, Kiloe, Huemer, Static Invasion, Tom Chapel, Vinnie Rae, Team Nerd, Solace Wonder, and NKO.) Free Sheep is at 2400 Third Avenue.

And here's the future for the herd, from DK Pan:

In the coming year, we have some really exciting projects in the works, mostly based in the International District. We are partnering with the SCIDpda (Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority) on a number of public art works including an alleyway mural project in Canton and Maynard Alley, video interviews with neighborhood historians which will be on permanent display and included in podcast walking tours, working with neighorbood youth groups, and curatorial projects in vacant storefronts. Currently, we are also talking with the Uwajimaya family about temporarily occupying the Publix Hotel for exhibitions. ... We are also preparing for the TUBS Memorial Project (50th & Roosevelt in U-District) which be staged in the early spring—the tentative date being the first two weeks of March.